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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Philosophy Point Soul World
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Friendship Harvest Modest Poor Result
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

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